It has really been an extremely hectic but also fulfilling 3 weeks, for me, as well as the office. Towards the end of November, I went with a small team to Huye, in southern Rwanda, to check out a potential site for the solar panel project in summer 2025.
Immediately, I flew back to Hong Kong. In the first week in December, we hosted 2 conferences, an English-speaking international one and a Chinese-speaking national one, both on Service-Learning.
Even before the conference was truly finished, I flew here, to London. To attend a QS conference and award ceremony. Because we entered our Rwanda-Tanzania Habitat Green projects in a QS award competition. HG is our flagship project to work towards sustainable development for these two sub-Sahara African countries. The category that fits our project the most seems to be Sustainability Education - Action. We had been warned that, in this category, we are running against some large-scale, well-funded, and professionally-tun projects. But we could not find a more suitable category. So we had to give it a try.
On Monday, we made a 5-minute pitch on Habitat Green. Today, Tuesday, it was announced that Habitat Green was given the Silver Award in our category. We are, of course, quite happy about it. On the one hand, it is an affirmation of the tremendous hardwork that the while team put in. So all of us can be very proud of the achievement.
On the other hand, Mr. T. S. Wong had been supporting HG generously for years. We feel we owe it to him to try to secure some external recognition for his generosity. This time we feel we have achieved it.
Hectic but ultimately fulfilling. 3 weeks.
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